Wire fence.



' UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

GOTTHOLD L. LANGER, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO PACIFIC STEEL & WIRE 00., OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

WIRE FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented DecflO, 1907.

Application filed November 21. 1906. Serial No. 344.448. Renewed August 26. 1907. Serial No. 390-212.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GoTTHoLD L. LANGER, citizen of United States, residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wire fencing. Its object is to provide a wire fence having a plurality of strand wires with two sets of stay wires: one set of stay wires joining up the strand wires in pairs, and the other set connecting with the first set of stay wires but not with the strand wires, to complete the fence.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1,represents a fragment of a wire fence showing stay-wires connecting the strand-wires in pairs and showing the stay wire for the last or odd strand of the fence. Fig.2, is a similar view showing the staywires between the connected pairs of strand wires. Fig. 3, represents a section of completed fence.

A represents a series of longitudinal strand wires or cables suitably s aced apart; successive pairs of these stran s being connected together from left to right by the short cross or stay wires 2; these latter in turn being connected by other cross or stay wires 3.

The distance apart of the several strands and stays determines the mesh of the fence; and'the mesh like theheight of the fence, the number of strands, the size of the wire used, &c,., depends on the particular use or'purpose for which the particular fence is intended.

The stay wires 2 are adapted to connect up the strand-wires A in pairs and the ends of these stay wiresare wrapped or coiled around the strands as shown at 2*. The stay wires 3 it will be noted connect the several connected pairs of strands together by having their ends coiled about the adjacent ends of the stay-wires 2, as shown at 3*. The second set of strand wires 3 are not coiled about the strand wires at all. There are thus here two separate and independent coiling operations, to wit: 1st.Ooiling alternate cross-wires upon the strand wires; and 2ndcoiling the intermediate cross wires upon the first cross-wires. Thus the coils 2 having their axes parallel with the strands, while the coils 3 have their axes at right angles to the strands. The machine for performing these coiling operations, forms the subject-matter of a separate application.

Where an odd number of strands enters into the construction of the fence, the last strand as shown is connected with the rest of the fence by the stays 3, which have one end wrapped about the strand and the other about the adjacent stays 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patents, is

A wire-fence consisting of an odd number of strand-wires, said strand-wires except the last connected in airs by stay-wires which have their ends coi ed about adjacent strandwires, stay-wires having one end coiled about said last-strand-wire and having their op 0- site ends coiled about adjacent of said st named stay-wires, and other stay-wires having their ends coiled about. said first-named stay-wires, and bridging the open spaces between the pairs of previously connected strands.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses:

GEO. W. MORROW, S. S. AUSTIN. 

